I meet teachers everywhere with worried looks on their faces, comments like “I can’t take it anymore” & “Someone should listen to the teachers.” If you want to see America’s future, look at our public schools. If you want to improve America’s future, listen to our teachers.

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Most don’t realize the high incidence of social & emotional trauma among kids - and teachers! - today. Starting with pre-school we must provide more than education; we must provide entrance into a better life. We need social and emotional learning and trauma-informed education.
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America has the right social workers, counselors, teachers & early childhood experts. They’re with the kids every day; they know what we need and they know what to do. But only a small % of our underserved kids get the help they need, feeding a multi-generational trend of despair
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Only a massive realignment of investment in our children, teachers and schools will ameliorate the dangerous social powder keg underlying American society. We can’t just treat symptoms. The cause of all societal dysfunction begins with despair among parents, children & families.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
If you want to understand a lack of leadership in education, look at the leader of Dept of Ed, who has no experience with public education. Ask the City of Detroit.
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It starts with having students that are excited about learning. Schools have become daycare &warehouses for kids with no manners or discipline.There are no consequences for bad behavior.Kids can’t learn when a teacher needs to spend 80% of their time disciplining 20% of students
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What about the parents? It's the responsibility of parents to rear up responsible children!
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Do you ask the teachers why they are pushing their liberal socialism/communism points of view on students?
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“The Cost of Chronic Trauma”is A Chapter in Williamson’s book A Politics of Love. Williamson writes,”The crisis of American children is multidimensional, with manifestations in our economic system, health system, educational system, justice system, andmental health care system”
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